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The Spiral 1992

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Accession No.
2023.348
Date Created
1992
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Australian Art
Edition
ed. 1/2
Media Category
Electronic media
Medium
Single-channel video: 11:27 minutes, colour, sound
Place Created
Kassel
Credit Line
The James C. Sourris AM Collection.
Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

When affordable Hi8 camera recorders became widely available in the early 1990s, Brisbane-based artist Lyndall Milani turned her attention to video. During a 1992 residency in Besozzo, Italy, she used her camera to record a ‘visual diary’ as she explored the town and travelled across Europe. The everyday scenes Milani captured formed her ‘found life’ series, stating: ‘I would begin filming and would just stay with the moment until, almost without fail, some small moment or vignette would unfold in front of the camera’. In The Spiral 1992, Milani films a staircase inside the Ottoneum Museum of Natural History in Kassel, Germany. 
 

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